The Philadelphia Sphas, also stylized SPHAs or SPHAS, were an American basketball franchise that existed in professional, semi-professional, and exhibition...

The Philadelphia Sphas were an American professional basketball team active from 1917 to 1959. Throughout the team's tenure, they played in many ramshackle...

the Sphas finished with a total record over .500. Stark, Douglas. The SPHAS: The Life and Times of Basketball's Greatest Jewish Team. Philadelphia: Temple...

The 1922–23 season was the first season played by the Sphas in the Philadelphia League, and the only season played by the team in the Manufacturer's League...

become the Philadelphia Sphas. Playing in the minor-league American Basketball League of Philadelphia, the team was known as Philadelphia YMHA, as they...

The 1923–24 season was the second played by the Sphas in the Philadelphia League. This season marked some notable firsts for the team, including their...

the Sphas' 4th season in the American League of Philadelphia. Game-by-game records are not available for this season. Stark, Douglas. The SPHAS: The...

the early professional and semi-professional basketball team, the Philadelphia Sphas. Some of the names in this list are incomplete. Contents:  Top 0–9...

Tel Aviv Ralph Kaplowitz, All American, NYU; guard, Philadelphia Sphas, New York Knicks, Philadelphia Warriors. Started in the first NBA/BAA game (Knicks...

the Sphas (they competed the previous year as Philadelphia YMHA), and the team's second season in the minor-league American League of Philadelphia. Game-by-game...

Jackaways for the 2nd half of 1934/35 to become the New Britain Mules) Philadelphia SPHAs (1933/34–48/49, also known as the Hebrews) Trenton Moose (1933/34)...

LIU, Schectman played for Eddie Gottlieb's Philadelphia Sphas in the American Basketball League. The Sphas joined the ABL in 1933 and won the league championship...

were created in 1952 by Louis "Red" Klotz, a former player for the Philadelphia Sphas, a former ABL team that became one of the Globetrotters' exhibition...

ABL ceased to be a major league, and the Sphas became the touring opponent of the Harlem Globetrotters. The Sphas were renamed the Washington Generals in...

league. The SPHAs won five of six games against ABL teams in 1925–26, losing only to the league's top club, the Cleveland Rosenblums. The SPHAs then defeated...

were borne out of the Philadelphia SPHAs, (South Philadelphia Hebrew Association) and headed up by Eddie Gottlieb, a Philadelphia native who tried, through...

1921–22 season was the fifth and final season the Sphas played in the American League of Philadelphia, as the league disbanded before the schedule was...

the Sphas later won the league championship with a 4-2 series victory over the Trenton Moose. The Sphas were also referred to as the Philadelphia Hebrews...

basketball player. He is mostly known for his time with the Philadelphia Sphas and Philadelphia Warriors of the ABL (1926–32). He was inducted into the Naismith...

In an exhibition game, the Sphas defeated the Harlem Globetrotters, Klotz's first game against them. He played with the Sphas until 1947. Klotz played during...

over the Philadelphia Sphas and their only BAA/NBA championship that they won with a 4–2 series win over the defending champion Philadelphia Warriors...

The Philadelphia Arena was an auditorium used mainly for sporting events located at 46th and Market Streets in West Philadelphia. The address of the building...

Association of South Philadelphia and played in the minor league American League of Philadelphia, before being renamed the Philadelphia Sphas (1918–1921, 1922–1926...

championship. Similarly, The Philadelphia Sphas basketball team in Philadelphia (whose name was an acronym of its founding South Philadelphia Hebrew Association)...

1946–47 season. Becker also played for the Wilmington Blue Bombers, Philadelphia Sphas and Baltimore Bullets of the American Basketball League, the Youngstown...

Stan Brown SF  United States South Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) (HS Jr.) Philadelphia Sphas (ABL) Philadelphia Sphas (ABL) John Chaney SG/SF  United States...

part by sports promoter Eddie Gottlieb who also owned the Philadelphia Sphas and Philadelphia Warriors basketball teams. Gottlieb leased Penmar Park from...

Philadelphia Sphas, from 1930 to 1936. Before he became head coach at Temple in 1952, he also served briefly as assistant coach for the Philadelphia Warriors...

junior at South Philadelphia High School, Brown signed with Philadelphia Sphas in October 1946. He made his professional debut with the Sphas on October 26...

Gottlieb with Philadelphia SPHAS and Warriors Known as basketball's first enforcer 1982 Hal Greer G consistent star scorer for the Philadelphia 76ers, NBA...